The Arctic Defense Campaign (ADC) is a centralized, formal campaign focused on the protection of the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge and the Western Arctic, which are the two swaths of federal land that make up America’s Arctic. We are a diverse coalition of Indigenous people, Alaskans, wildlife enthusiasts, conservationists, veterans, sportsmen, scientists, athletes, people of faith, and many others committed to protecting these irreplaceable and culturally and ecologically significant landscapes from the threat of oil and gas development.
The Issue:
The Arctic National Wildlife Refuge and the National Petroleum Reserve - Alaska (Western Arctic) are iconic ecosystems in northern Alaska facing increasing threats from climate change. They are some of the last few biologically rich, wild, landscape-level federal lands remaining in the United States. For millennia, these lands have been the cultural homelands of the Gwich’in and Iñupiat people, who continue to live on, care for, and rely on their resources and wildlife.
We need to build the public support needed to call on our political and corporate leaders to permanently protect these landscapes from fossil fuel development and exploration.
